We had already cleaned our bathroom that week too... I just don’t understand!
The day before we left for Xi’an CIerra and I had to teach. To preface this story I must tell you a little bit about where I live. We are on the 5th floor. The stairs are steep and there are no elevators or anything. Our apartment building is in the farthest corner of campus. Our school is built on a hill... a steep one. There are hundreds of stairs just to get to our building... and then up five more floors! Anyway... So we left to teach. We meet at the gate at 7:10 and there’s supposed to be a van to pick us up. Once again there was no van. We asked the security guard to use his phone and he wouldn’t let us. We walked all the way back up to the teaching building to look for Kelly (our foreign coordinator). She wasn’t in her office, so we walked all the way up to our apartment building to find her. On the way we met Amanda (our head teacher) and she told us Kelly was supposed to be in the teaching building. So we went back down there. Not there. So we went back to the gate to make sure the van hadn’t come... it hadn’t! The nice guard was there, so we used the phone to call Kelly. No answer! So we walked all the way back up to Kelly’s room (which is also on the 5th floor). Kelly called some people and they sent a van to come get us. We walked all the way back down to the gate. Hundreds of stairs later we were finally in the van!
We thought our journey to teach was over. We were wrong!! The driver was not our normal one and she was SCARY! About 15 minutes into the commute (the scariest one of my life) the lady just pulled over on the side of the freeway. We had no idea what was going on. She started driving again and like 2 minutes later pulled. We were thoroughly confused. She kept calling someone on her cell phone, but obviously we couldn’t understand what was going on. We started driving again and then she pulled over next to our usual van. We had to switch vans... slightly scary on the roads in China! We transferred vans and FINALLY got on our way!
Teaching that day went really well! 3 out of 4 of my classes are consistently good! :) That’s not bad odds, right? Anyway... the faculty at our school loves us! It’s so awesome! The chefs especially love us.... apparently feeding blonde Americans is fun to them! Earlier we had mentioned that we liked dumplings. That day the chefs made dumplings especially for us! It was so sweet and they kept offering us more and more! Our school is seriously so cool! I love it!
After lunch Miss Tao invited us to play ping pong. Welcome to China, right?! Ha! Miss Tao was way into it! She was ready to play! They take their ping pong seriously here in China! I’m not very good... I think I disappointed the Asians! What better place to work on my ping pong skills than in China?!
This is Cierra and Miss Tao playing ping pong! :)
The day started out a little hectic, but it ended up being great!!
Next up: Xi’an! :)
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